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posted 12/06/06 by Lisa Crounse What did you do at AU?

For those of you that did not make it to Autodesk University this year - we missed you. For those of you who did make it - we hope that you have recovered! I'm happy to say that our entire team survived, although more than a few team members are a few pounds lighter. More on that later.

When we all got back into the office on Monday, I asked people "What was you most memorable moment of the show for you?" As you can imagine I got quite a mixed bag of responses.

Reported Scott Morrison, lead on the UI architecture for the development team - "While I was watching Todd’s demo in the exhibit hall, I heard the person behind me say “Wow, that really looks hand drawn!” (I'll interview Scott soon in this blog and you will learn about all the cool coding that went into the Area Fill tool.)

Travis Jones, who taught a hands-on lab class and two hands-on sessions in the AUGI play pen reported,
- In the AUGI play pen, when one of the students asked "is this for real?"
- In my hands-on lab when one of the students called the product "sweet"



Our Product Design team reported that they learned a lot from the one-on-one feedback sessions that they did with customers during the show. (Pictured above is team member Yan Shober, and an AU attendee) In these sessions, they observed first time users working with the product. They learned a ton about usability and are now working with the development team to integrate many of these ideas into Impression.

So, that's all great. Impression was impressive at AU, and we learned a lot from customers, but "where is the good stuff?" you are probably asking at this point. This was Las Vegas after all.

Jon Rossen, a software quality engineer reported having an out of body experience - " I was taking a 30 minute break and playing blackjack at the Venetian at the end of the casino closest to where AU was. As I was at the table playing, I looked up and saw Misha and Tim M. from the AutoCAD team walking through the casino as if they were on their way to an escalate meeting: Except, they were in a Las Vegas casino and not in San Rafael!! It was very strange, but after I saw them I quickly won $60 and then went back to AU and attending my class!!"

Who knew that AutoCAD team members carried with them so much good luck.

Our team also experienced a bit of bad luck at the show as four team members came down with horrific food poisoning. Sadly, this was the most memorable part of the show for many team members, and I could go on with details, but I'll spare you all that. I will say that they all learned the proper etiquitte for obtaining nescessary supplies from their seatmates on the plane rides home, "Excuse me, but are you planning on using your barf bag?" Great first impression, huh?

With that, I will offer you today's helpful hint - be wary of the chicken.

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